Blast from the past

fafi
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Re: Blast from the past

8 years 5 months ago

#649469

ante post punters lost when Empress Club was scratched from i think the july

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PeeKay
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Re: Blast from the past

8 years 5 months ago

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i absolutely love Pocket Power.....what a champ

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Craig Eudey
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8 years 5 months ago - 8 years 5 months ago

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Politician, never beaten over 1600m and never beaten in the Cape.

Last edit: 8 years 5 months ago by Craig Eudey. Reason: Spelling

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8 years 5 months ago

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rob faux wrote: Obviously we have seen some really good horses over the years but the real test is the relativity of their opposition!!
The best of the best will be freaks and for me those are
1)Horse Chestnut,a freak (first 3 yr old to win Met in over 50 years and did it in a canter (+ 7 lengths)
2)Empress Club,another freak, won the Summer Handicap (run then in April/May)as a 3 yr old filly (unbelievable)(I think only MdK has ever got a 3yr old filly to win the July,some 3 months later.)
3)Finally,
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In Full Flight
who made 2 absolute champions (Elevation and Sentinel) look ordinary as 3yr olds !(Beat them both often but in the Bull Brand stakes beat them comfortably ,by over 5 lengths,at level weights!!!
Easily my best 3!

definitely one of the very best that I saw...

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Garrick
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8 years 5 months ago - 8 years 5 months ago

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Craig Eudey wrote: Politician, never beaten over 1600m and never beaten in the Cape.

No doubt one of the very best and one of my all time favourites. His second Met win bordered on the unbelievable when you consider his finish & the lumps of weight he gave the second horse. (If memory serves me correctly I believe it was 7kg; which few horses are required to do today at that level ).

But I suspect that Horse Chestnut is probably the finest local horse I have witnessed personally in my own lifetime.

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8 years 5 months ago

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The question is over a mile and over a mile and over a mile the following would run legal eagle off his feet

1: politician / Spook express
2: Empress club
3: Rolands song
4: Model Man
5: Mark Anthony
6: Horse Chestnut
7: London News
8: In Full Flight

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Re: Blast from the past

8 years 5 months ago

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This horse was SPECIAL to many very special to me and very very special to MDK

and over 1500m-1800m she was the BOMB

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easy
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8 years 5 months ago

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this running as a 7 year old......against banks hill in the prime of her life.......

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Zietsman Oosthuizen
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8 years 5 months ago

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Easy, you wont believe it but we owned spook express' brother, a colt called Green Street by averof whereas spook expess was by cosmic blush.
Green Street was a big black horse with a white blaze, and he was the hardest ever horse to stop. Once ran away with me , 5 times around our training track (1600m track) ... i jump off eventually. He was also the worst ever horse i ridden (and i ridden him in quite a few races) , and yes, he coulnd beat the cow we milked , absalutely useless in races.

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Mac
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8 years 5 months ago

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If anyone can remember in the mid 80's there was a hyped-up and well marketed computer simulated race which was commentated by Peter Duffield on the radio. The race had all of South Africa's greats up to that time. For what it was worth and from what I can remember, Colorado King won the race with Politician third.

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khargisland
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Re: Blast from the past

8 years 4 months ago

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SheaShea wrote: If you could bring back 1 retired horse, or a horse that has passed on to defeat LEGAL EAGLE, who would it be????

This should be fun....

The mighty ELEVATION

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